What have we learned from the financial crisis 100 years ago?

What have we learned from the financial crisis 100 years ago?

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Just days before war broke out in 1914, British banks were paralysed by a global financial crisis in a similar way to the crisis almost 100 years later, in 2008. Edward Bonham Carter, vice chairman of Jupiter Fund Management, looks at the parallels

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